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BlitzAPI pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, POST /v2/search/waterfall-icp-keyword

BlitzAPI's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn people search API in 2026
69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 357 plans by price. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.00023. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan covers up to 21,600,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 people.Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan (/v2/search/people) covers any number of people. Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan costs less to start than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.Reverse Contact, BlitzAPI and DataForB2B are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of BlitzAPI's 6 plans
Call: POST /v2/search/waterfall-icp-keyword one of BlitzAPI's 3 calls for this API
API: LinkedIn people search API one of BlitzAPI's 10 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get people from BlitzAPI's copy of LinkedIn. BlitzAPI doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 9 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Connections, Certifications.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 results a month. Unused records do not carry over.
  • One call. You call POST /v2/search/waterfall-icp-keyword. You send company_linkedin_url, cascade and cascade[].include_title. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

BlitzAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

The table starts with BlitzAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to BlitzAPI's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

BlitzAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v2/search/waterfall-icp-keywordReverse Contact, $699 monthly, Max, POST /v2/search/people/promptScrappa, pay as you goClay, $2,004 yearlyMart.dev, $2,999 monthly
$ per 1,000 people$0.10$0.0016$0.05$0.167$0.24
Completeness69%100%0%15%54%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay as you goyearlymonthly
Pay$499$699per call$2,004$2,999
Enough for5,000,000 results a month4,320,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for1,000,000 results a month12,500,000 results a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itprofessional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitorsprofessionals acting in their professional capacity, not as consumersanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone who can enter a binding agreement

Every LinkedIn people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. agents.blitz-api.ai/llms.txt
  2. blitz-api.ai/legal/privacy
  3. blitz-api.ai/pricing
  4. blitz-api.ai/products/profile-enrichment
  5. blitz-api.ai/terms
  6. docs.blitz-api.ai/api-reference/people-search/waterfall-icp-search
  7. docs.blitz-api.ai/api-reference/v2.openapi.json
  8. docs.blitz-api.ai/guide/concepts/pricing
  9. docs.blitz-api.ai/guide/concepts/pricing-unlimited
  10. docs.blitz-api.ai/guide/reference/appendix
  11. docs.blitz-api.ai/guide/reference/fair-use-policy
  12. docs.blitz-api.ai/index
  13. docs.blitz-api.ai/llms-full.txt
  14. docs.blitz-api.ai/sdks/rate-limits
  15. blitz-api.ai/products/waterfall-icp

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections
  • Certifications
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorstreg: your key free, paid $0.495 per 1,000 results, this call or another BlitzAPI call
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Company Enrichment · Employee Finder · Find People · Company Search · TAM By Jobs · TAM By People · Search Jobs · Search Company Jobs · Person Enrichment · Find Work Email · Reverse Email Lookup · Reverse Phone Lookup · Domain to LinkedIn URL · LinkedIn URL to Domain · Company Employee Distribution by Country · Company Employee Distribution by Department
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWaterfall ICP Search (POST /v2/search/waterfall-icp-keyword) finds the best decision-makers at one company from a prioritized cascade. It takes the company’s LinkedIn URL and up to 10 tiers of job titles, exclusions and locations, then returns up to max_results people, each tagged with the tier (icp) that matched.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit, after the subscription ends too, for internal business use only, erased when the person asks
Use dataBlitzAPI grants the Client a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license, during the term of its subscription, to access and use the Services and the Data for the Client’s own internal business purposes only, including to identify, research and communicate with businesses and professionals for legitimate B2B sales, marketing, recruiting and business-development activities. Agencies may use the Data on behalf of their own clients only under the Agency’s own subscription and solely for those clients’ internal B2B purposes, without any redistribution or resale rights. Under these Terms, resale and redistribution of the Data are strictly prohibited. The Client shall not, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly: resell, redistribute, sublicense, rent, lease, share, syndicate, publish or otherwise make the Data available to any third party, expose or provide access to the Data or the API through the Client’s own product, API, application, file export, feed, or interface used by third parties, act as a data provider, broker or reseller of the Data, or create any product, service or dataset (aggregated or not, identified or de-identified) derived from the Data for the benefit of third parties, list, offer or distribute the Data or API access on any marketplace or aggregation platform (e.g., RapidAPI, Apify, Clay), or access the Services on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any third party other than the Client’s own Authorized Users. Resale, redistribution or integration for the benefit of third parties is permitted only where expressly authorized under a separate signed Commercial Agreement with BlitzAPI. The Client shall not use the Data or Services to: send spam or unsolicited communications, or otherwise breach anti-spam, ePrivacy, PECR, CAN-SPAM, CASL or TCPA rules, engage in phishing, fraud, deception, harassment, defamation, or any unlawful or harmful activity, target consumers or use the Data for B2C purposes, consumer profiling, or any non-professional context, promote illegal products or services, firearms, adult content, gambling, or hate speech, use the Data for any purpose governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or equivalent, including consumer credit, employment, or insurance eligibility, infer, derive or enrich special categories of personal data (sensitive data), circumvent technical, rate or Fair Use limits, probe or reverse-engineer the Services, or extract data from the Services by automated means other than the documented API, use the Data to build, train, seed or benchmark a database or product intended to substitute for or compete with the Services, or infringe the rights of third parties, including data-protection rights and the terms of source platforms (e.g., LinkedIn). The Client may not access or use the Services if the Client or any of its Authorized Users is a competitor of BlitzAPI (as reasonably determined by BlitzAPI), nor for the purpose of building or supporting a competing product or dataset.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 results a month
Enough for1,000 results a month
Expiresunused records do not carry over
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendcompany_linkedin_url, cascade, cascade[].include_title. Optional: cascade[].exclude_title, cascade[].location, cascade[].include_headline_search, cascade[].include_active_jobs, cascade[].include_past_jobs, cascade[].is_recent_hire, max_results, profile_min_connections
MethodPOST
Path/v2/search/waterfall-icp-keyword
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itprofessional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitors
The 51 fields the plan's answer can hold

company URL, max results, results on page, cascade tier, ranking, first name, last name, name, nickname, civility title, headline, about, location, city, state, country code, continent, postal code, street address, profile URL, profile picture, connections, jobs, job company, job title, job company URL, job company ID, job company domain, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, job employment type, job workplace type, job location, schools, school name, school degree, school start date, school end date, skills, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification URL, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset date, second rate limit, requests left this second, request ID

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